Grim Dawn - Best Skills for Early Leveling (Clearing Areas) - New Player Guide - 2022 - v1.1.9.4
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- Опубліковано 24 січ 2022
- Quick demonstration of each mastery's best skill(s) for clearing groups of enemies during early leveling.
Timestamps:
Soldier 1:29
Demolitionist 2:22
Occultist 3:51
Nightblade 5:18
Arcanist 6:36
Shaman 8:31
Inquisitor 10:58
Necromancer 13:55
Oathkeeper 15:24 - Ігри
Inquisitor's WoP is actually one of the best, but not its base skill. You put points into it like 2 and 1 to mastery bar every level for the first 3 levels, then swap to 1 and 2 mastery till you get the second skill, which increases its radius and damage (it's almost as much damage as points in the base skill + radius)
Storm box is the single target damage for inquisitors.
You've completely changed the game for my wife and I. We are new to ARPG's, and this isn't the easiest one to jump into, so we have been struggling. We watched this a few days ago, and we can turn entire maps red now! Thanks a ton!
Thanks for the comment, always great to hear this stuff is useful 👊🙂
Very useful stuff, thanks mate!
Timestamps for each mastery (class) in description.
Word of Pain video - shows how to use it properly, not the way I mess it up in this video: ua-cam.com/video/GzMZa3fS8sY/v-deo.html
Word of Pain paired with Bloody Pox goes a long way :) Thanks for the guide.
Just grabbed this in the Lunar Sale ‘22. Great tips
Thanks for the view and the comment - have fun with the game!
For nightblade, I'd also suggest 1 pointing ABB and LA because LA buffs the aura's damage. As an early combo, it's crazy damage combo.
This is brilliant for starters and for just general AOE. And that it is for each class is even better.
Thanks! I didn’t give ‘Word of Pain’ the best demonstration - it’s more useful than I make it look. I’m going to do a short follow-up vid to demonstrate it a bit better!
Great tips for new players
I'm fully behind skeletons as your go to skill for Necro. And the more points in the first and second skill the stronger it gets. Can get you through normal without ever touching an enemy (after you unlock it)
Yeah, and it is easily the "laziest" leveling skill as you can pretty much just wander about looking at the scenery and picking flowers while they wreck everything.
For Oathkeeper, I basically just mastery dump until VM, then mastery dump till volcanic stride.
I used forcewave for my first base game run. Works pretty well with a controller. Onto ashes of that one thing dlc!
Nice one, thanks for the view and the comment 👊🙂
IMO for occultist summon familiar is also a great early game skill. It may not seem to do much with 1 to 2 points in it but with the base skill and storm touched (or what the familiar damage booster skill was) maxed it will absolutely decimate trash mobs at least in act 1 and also clear bosses relatively easily. Putting some points to hellhound also helps draw some aggro away from the familiar. It doesn't even need pet boosters to make clearing most of act 1 a walk in the park and it can then be respeced to something else.
Yeah, I’ve done that with the two pets on Occultist at the start of the game and it is very strong. I had to decide for this video which single skill would be the best for most players (particularly new players) for clearing big groups of enemies the fastest, and Bloody Pox seems overall the best general recommendation.
I've been experimenting with lots of Oathkeepers, and wat i do is to put a few points into the shield bonus passive for loads of flat phys, and then rush for Judgement (spirit guide to reach it quicker), because Judgement gets a HUGE area increase, and the damage is nice enought!
great video, never used the cocktail before and it looks cool AF
That Oathkeeper tactic sounds fun!
Cocktail stays viable all the way, helped massively by the resistance reduction on its 3rd node. Attach Fissure devotion to it (for example) and it’s even more crazy.
Oathkeeper's Guardians are also amazing to level up! Pair it with dual Authority and you are set for the game! (I even managed to get my Hardcore achievements using a Dervish pure acid guardians, my most successful build!)
By the way, did you know if it is possible to spawn Authority sceptres with the shieldbreaker prefix? (or the other one that also gives +2 to guardians?) Because I'm farming it nonstop for a week and can't find one...
@@Marine-yf7ny According to Grimtools, the "Shieldbreaker's" prefix CAN apply to scepters.
@Arcadelife I guess it is just ultra rare... spent more than 30 hours rushing the boss...
I'm a new player, but a couple things I've experienced. Word of Pain on Inquisitor is really good for early AOE, the single target is a bit lacking but you can throw a few point in the lightning box to supplement the damage. I also did Ravenous Swarm fully maxed out, and although it's energy hungry, you can group up the mobs and take most of them out in a single throw, then you can even add a couple points into Bloody Pox to really pump the damage
Yeah, I posted a follow-up video about Word of Pain because I got it wrong in this video. Here's the WoP video - ua-cam.com/video/GzMZa3fS8sY/v-deo.html
for inquisitor the frost ground rune is alot better for area clear, you just max the first part and throw it down then lead the enemies over it, pretty decent clear
Bought the game yesterday. Fell in love. Bought the DLCs today. No regrets.
DLCs add a bunch of quality-of-life enhancements as well as all the new areas, gear, classes, enemies and devotion constellations…
Thanks for the comment, glad you’re liking the game 👊🙂
@@Arcadelife1 I'm not impressed with the arcanist. I thought the class would be... "Boomier," so to speak, like a traditional mage. Maybe when I get to higher levels.
Any suggestions on energy management?
@@gh0stluv979 Boomier - try pairing Arcanist with Demolitionist. Energy issues can be sorted with the two passive skill nodes on Arcanist, the first one “Inner Focus” and the fourth one “Mental Alacrity”. There are also components (example Ectoplasm) that buff energy/energy regen, and you can prioritise wearing gear that has energy regen buffs on it.
I’ll dig out a few links to Battle Mage videos (Arcanist and Soldier) so you can see what’s possible with a fairly bad mastery pairing.
@@gh0stluv979 Battle Mage videos
ua-cam.com/video/m5byjBfQ6oM/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/g1GIpbBVQCE/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/RVxBCj_hmD4/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/9Z8ZGI4eH5k/v-deo.html
For Nightblade I find the fastest to go through normal is Phantasmal Blades with a Spectral Crossbow, like people have said WoP on Inquisitor is insane, lvl second node. For Shaman, fastest I find is Wind Devil/Storm Totem. Necro skellies is great but Ravenous earth is also great, just need to get there first.
Thanks, great info from you once again. I failed on Word of Pain, totally admit it, and this additional info (from everyone who has contributed) is very useful. The other skills mentioned (needing gear or loads of mastery points) I avoided mentioning as I wanted to focus on skills that can be acquired very early on with zero (or very simple) prerequisites. I’ll do a ‘Word of Pain Apology Video’ very soon.
Super video
BWC is the best/2nd best because it pairs so well with the best leveling component, fire blast/greater fire blast so well. WoP is arguably better since it sticks to enemies and has no CD, but requires a greater point investment to really make it wide spread, but it also pairs with fire blast.
Yeah, I need to mess about more with Word of Pain to see how I can make it work better for me. I tried to avoid saying things like "this skill will work well with X or Y" because at that point I thought it would start getting beyond the scope of 'absolute beginners' and would once again drag one of my videos out to an hour!
@@Arcadelife1 lol, yeah. The second point for WoP is basically the main dump. Its like taking the spam button for forcewave or primastrike.
For Shaman, Devouring Swarm is great, but adding Grasping Vines makes it stupid easy to destroy mobs. Grasping Vines slows down their movement by up to 75% and damages them a lot, and if they're melting from Devouring Swarm at the same time they have no chance. This combo is the easiest early leveling I've found so far.
I love aegis of menhir but it is a bit of an unconventional one to get going. You wanna keep the base skill low to save energy usage, get the bounce to lvl 10 which maxes out the number of bounces, and then max the final skill before going back to the base one. You’ll absolutely obliterate anything the game throws at you, including bosses with a bit of kiting.
Tanks 👍
Just bought the game and went in blind and let gear dictate my skills. Stuff kept giving me bonuses to skeletons so thats what Ive gone with. Im still only early on but im not even able to get a look at bosses before they are killed now. Its fun in a way but im also a bit sad as it means im personally not required to do much at all. May at least switch it up to veteran. Not sure how good the build will do end game tho.
Thanks for the view and the comment. Skeletons are great for leveling and can also remain viable right through Ultimate difficulty. Have a look at this ‘pure Necro’ pet-build video - ua-cam.com/video/CMd4g_6JpIQ/v-deo.html
Having levelled about 8 Shaman by now, I think you are wrong. The best choice for levelling a Shaman is Wind Devil. That skill on its own can safely carry to well past level 50. And unlike some of the others you mentioned, it is a very reliable boss-killer. And no mana problems either since you don't need many points in the main skill, just the modifiers. And imo, Word of Pain is BY FAR the best levelling skill in the game. Nothing comes close (maybe Forcewave?)
Fair enough. Where would you spread the points around the three nodes, to give it a bit of context for how many points a new player might expect to invest (and where) for a viable skill.
I would say that Devouring Swarm may be easier to use. Especially early game. So long as you can line enemies up right it will cleave right through them, and heal damage taken rather easily.
The audio on these videos seem very low on my computer, is it just me?
Game sounds are turned down deliberately so as not to drown out my amazing commentary. Commentary isn’t blaring out loud because you’d really not want that. Overall, it doesn’t sound ‘very low’ to me. Some of my older videos are definitely too quiet and/or affected by background hum due to me being a muppet setting the microphone up, but this one seems ok to me.
Bloody Pox is my favorite skill. I found a pair of swords that increased bleed damage by 200% and applied bleed damage and had +2 to Bloody Pox skill on EACH one. I popped one point into Nightblade and one into the dual wield skill. My Bloody Pox damage went from 2100 to almost 5200 after attaching the gallstone components. One cast clears monster shrines in under 3 seconds.
Yeah, that’s an excellent way to get early, massively overpowered Pox. I even did a video on it - ua-cam.com/video/9htjYPlRxEw/v-deo.html
Cheers for the comment, always much appreciated 👊🙂
Does it matter what cult god u side with?
Not massively because they all remain friendly and they all gain reputation from Eldritch kills. You just get a bit of a head-start with reputation for the cult you choose and you follow their early quests through Forgotten Gods. There are other reasons to choose a particular cult related to gear but you can swap cults in elite and ultimate so there’s no ‘mistake’ really.
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12:55 noooo storm box is a 1 point wonder mate. The real magic is in tether paires with a low cooldown devotion proc. Yooge damage. Do recommend farming the hat infrequent from old god korvaak fanatics straight out of act 1
Good call, thanks for a decent alternative skill suggestion 👊🙂
Time Stamps
Can’t you see them in the description?
You skipped the most under rated skill that no one ever puts any respect on. And that skill is for the Arcanist and the skill is Panetti's Replicating Missile. Great all around skill for clearing or bossing. I used just that through the whole story and maybe just died 5 times.
Thanks! I’ll add that to my list of follow-up vids in this series. Much appreciated feedback.